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Equity, Sustainability and Social Change
Master of EducationSpecialisation (formal)Year: 2025
Overview
This specialisation allows students to harness their passion for social change and build the knowledge and expertise required to act decisively regarding questions of equity, justice, sustainability and diversity in educational contexts. This specialisation assumes that equity, justice, diversity, and environmental sustainability are closely intertwined. The specialisation empowers students to examine policies and practices across a range of educational settings and address social and educational inequalities, environmental challenges, injustice, and social diversity. In this specialisation students examine the barriers as well as the opportunities for achieving more sustainable, equitable and inclusive educational participation and experiences. Students will explore specific and intersecting experiences of inequality, including those related to gender, sexuality, race and racism, colonialism, capitalism, and environmental crises. Through critical engagement with theory and research, students will develop strategies to inform their own career pathway in education, from policy, to schools, early childhood settings, further and higher education and public educational institutions.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this specialisation, students should be able to:
- Draw on varied theoretical resources and research to develop a critical understanding of the relationship between education, equity, and sustainability
- Critically examine issues of social justice and sustainability as interconnected, historically grounded and mediated through formal, non-formal and informal education settings
- Critically analyse and reflect on their own role in developing educational policies and practices that recognise Indigenous knowledge, culture and experiences
- Develop their own vision of how education should be transformed for a more sustainable, fair, and secure future, taking a range of settings into account, such as schools, workplaces, higher and further education, and early childhood education
- Explore varied approaches to promote social change through education policies and practices for a more equitable and sustainable future.
Last updated: 11 November 2024